The Numerical Algorithms Group (NAG) has for decades provided top-notch computational software used by university researchers, commercial organisations and others. NAG started as a UK-based inter-university activity coordinated from Nottingham University.

The software was originally written in Algol 60 and Fortran, and ran on certain ICL mainframe systems. A lot has happened since then, including the formation of a not-for-profit company, the creation of multi-platform libraries, and the development of related tools such as the world's first Fortran 90 compiler, visualisation software, and code for high-performance computing.

NAG continues to focus on accuracy, robustness, and accessibility.

The Group already funds The Wilkinson Prize for Numerical Software; the NAG Prize in Applied Numerical Computing and the NAG Prize in Mathematical Finance, and has now announced the NAG 40th Anniversary Awards which will be open to students around the world.

Awards will be offered through participating institutions around the world for the best performances in a Masters of Science program, best projects and/or best numerical solutions.

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"Nearly every challenge that we face today -global warming, developing energy sources to sustain economic growth worldwide, creating vaccines for the  pandemics of today and tomorrow, to name a few - will be solved, in  part, with innovative approaches to numerical computing and the most up to date processor platforms," said NAG CEO Rob Meyer.

"Helping with this has been NAG's mission since our inception, and by extending the NAG Awards we hope to help institutions focus on the development of numerical code with direct application in many fields and to attract the talent that will support the processor technologies of tomorrow."